View full sizeScott Learn, The OregonianCliff Tracy, left, has agreed not to return to a Bureau of Land Management mine that he was charged with illegally mining on. It's a sensitive salmon stream in Southwest Oregon along Galice Creek.Ron Gibon, left, vice president of the Southwest Oregon Mining Association, advises Tracy.

Southwest Oregon gold miner Clifford R. Tracy agreed Thursday in U.S. District Court to not return to the site along Galice Creek where he was charged with illegal mining.

He also agreed not to mine on public land without the court's written permission. The sensitive salmon stream is on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property.

This is the second time Tracy was charged with illegal mining. In 2009, Tracy was convicted of illegally mining on Forest Service land along Sucker Creek, like Galice home to Oregon coastal coho salmon, which are listed under the Endangered Species Act. He has applied to mine that same spot again.

The latest charge from the U.S. attorney's office of Oregon stems from Tracy's operations on the Stray Dog mining claim near Grants Pass. Tracy, 39, of Gold Hill, was asked him to submit a formal plan of operations in May, the government said, but Tracy did not respond.

The Oregon has followed Tracy the trials and tribulations of his mining issues over a couple of years. Read three past stories about him: